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2007 Conference Best Paper Awards

CICC gratefully acknowledges 2007 Best Paper Sponsors:

Best Invited Paper and Best Regular Paper:  Altera

Best Student Paper:  GE Global Research

Best Poster Paper:  Analog Devices

 

Best Invited Paper               

Revolutionary NanoSilicon Ancillary Technologies for Ultimate-Performance Gigascale System

Muhannad S. Bakir, Bing Dang, and James D. Meindl

Microelectronics Research Center; Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia

 

Best Regular Paper                
A 2.5Gb/s Burst-Mode CDR based on a 1/8th Rate Dual Pulse Ring Oscillator

Sander L.J. Gierkink, Conexant Systems, Red Bank, New Jersey

          

Best Student Paper                 

A Delta-Sigma Modulator with a Widely Programmable Center Frequency and 82-dB Peak SNDR

Kentaro Yamamoto, Anthony Chan Carusone, and Francis P. Dawson

University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

                                                           

2006 Conference Best Paper Awards

Best Paper Awards graciously sponsored by GE Global Research

Best Invited Paper                Press Kit                 Paper 8-6 (download)

Implications of Proximity Effects for Analog Design      

P.G. Drennan, M.L. Kniffin, D.R. Locascio,  Freescale Semiconductor, Tempe, AZ 

 

Best Regular Paper                Press Kit               Paper 10-7 (download)
Self-Referenced Sense Amplifier for Across-Chip-Variation                     

Immune Sensing in High-Performance Content Addressable Memories   

I. Arsovski, R. Wistort,        IBM Silicon Solutions, Essex Junction, VT   

          

Best Student Paper                  Press Kit               Paper 28-6 (download)
A 0.6V Highly Linear Switched-R-MOSFET-C Filter                                

P. Kurahashi, P.Hanumolu, G. Temes, U-K. Moon, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

 

Best Poster Paper                     Press Kit               Poster Paper 21 (download)
GHz Serial Passive Clock Distribution in VLSI Using Bidirectional Signaling 

V. Prodanov, M. Banu,    MHI Consulting                                          

 

 

2005 Best Paper Awards

Best Invited Paper
Paper 16-2
A Digital Clock and Data Recovery Architecture for Multi-Gigabit/s Binary Links
J. Sonntag and J. Stonick, Synopsys, Inc., Hillsboro, OR

Best Regular Paper
Paper 12-2
An 8Mb 1T1C Ferroelectric Memory with Zero Cancellation and Micro-Granularity Redundancy
J. Eliason, S. Mandan*, H. McAdams*, G. Fox, T. Moise*, C. Lin, K. Schwartz, J. Gallia*, E. Jabillo, B. Craus and S. Summerfelt*, Ramtron International Corp., Colorado Springs, CO, *Texas Instruments Inc., Dallas, TX

Best Student Paper
Paper 26-2
A Precision CMOS Amplifier using Floating-Gates for Offset Cancellation
V. Srinivasan, G.J. Serrano, J. Gray, and P. Hasler, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

2004 Best Paper Awards

Best Invited Paper
Paper 13-1
Vibrating RF MEMS for Next Generation Wireless Applications
Clark Nguyen, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Best Regular Paper
Paper 18-4
A CMOS Direct-Conversion Transceiver for IEEE 802.11a/b/g WLANs
P. Zhang, L. Der, D. Guo, I. Sever, T. Bourdi, C. Lam, A. Zolfaghari, J. Chen, D. Gambetta, B. Cheng, S. Gower, S. Hart, L. Huynh, T. Nguyen, and B. Razavi*, RF Micro Devices, San Jose, CA, and *University of California, Los Angeles, CA

Best Student Paper
Paper 26-5
A 24GHz, +14.5dBM Fully-Integrated Power Amplifier in 0.18um CMOS
A. Komijani and A. Hajimiri, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

2003 Best Paper Awards

Best Invited Paper
Paper 14-1
Advances in RF Packaging Technologies for Next-Generation Wireless Communications
Larry Larson and Daryl Jessie*, University of California, San Diego, CA, *Qualcomm, San Diego, CA

Best Regular Paper
Paper 31-5
Noise Analysis Methodology for Partially Depleted SOI Circuits
Mini Nanua and David Blaauw*, Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector, Austin, TX, *University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Best Student Paper
Paper 6-2
Non-Linear Transmission Lines for Pulse Shaping in Silicon
E. Afshari and A. Hajimiri, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA